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Thesis (Ed.D) -- Teachers College, Columbia University, 1989. / Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Paul Byers. Dissertation Committee: Robert O. McClintock. Bibliography: leaves 161-178.

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The purpose of this experiment was to empirically study and document the double bind. Twenty outpatient clinical and twenty matched non-clinical adolescents between the ages of 13 and 19 were studied. Three research questions were investigated. The first was the nature of the bodily responses in terms of cognitive complexity and emotional stress to inconsistent and consistent messages in the context of a close relationship. Cognitive complexity was measured by Reaction-time, and emotional stress by heart-rate and frequency of non-verbal movement (arm, leg and foot). The consistent and inconsistent messages were presented by the instrument developed by Reilly (in press) consisting of photographs and accompanying taped messages in a mother/child context. The second question studied was the nature of responses (double bound/non-double bound) made by the two groups to inconsistent and consistent messages. Finally, the nature of the attribution of meaning to messages, and the verbal/non-verbal focus used to do so by both groups, was studied. It was found that the inconsistent messages were more cognitively complex for both groups than consistent ones, and that inconsistent positive messages were the most complex of all. Perhaps this finding about inconsistent positive messages may be explained by their less frequent documentation in the double bind literature, and their not being part of the accepted social norm. Inconsistent messages were also found to be more stressful than consistent messages to both groups. This confirms the speculations in the theory of such communication being associated with subjective distress. In addition, the clinical group was found to make more double bound responses than the non-clinical group, especially in response to inconsistent messages. This is very supportive of the hypotheses of the double bind theory. Finally, it was found that meaning was correctly and unhesitatingly attributed to consistent messages by both groups. However there was less clarity and consensus in the attribution of meaning to the inconsistent messages by both groups. The non-clinical group tended to focus on non-verbal information in interpreting the messages, which is developmentally age-appropriate. The clinical group tended to focus at times on the non-verbal information, and at other times on the verbal or literal information, indicating a transitional stage between a developmentally younger stage and the age-appropriate stage. / Ph. D.

This study investigated the emotionally disruptive effects of double binding communication, as compared with overtly punitive, and warm, accepting interactions. Forty-two college undergraduates scoring above the mean on the Neuroticism Subscale of Eysenck's Personality Questionaire were each directed to play the part of a small child in a spontaneous role-played family interaction. A pre-post mood test (Multiple Adjective Affect Check List), sensitive to changes in depression, hostility, and anxiety was administered. It was found that subjects in the double-bind and punitive conditions evidenced significant mood disturbance while subjects in the control group did not (all ps < .05). Implications for Double Bind Theory were discussed.

Orientador: Angel Pino Sirgado / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-07T23:21:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Santos_SheilaDanielaMedeirosdos_D.pdf: 2523027 bytes, checksum: e99d45425450fc7f9e702122186f27f1 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Este trabalho tem como objetivo elucidar a essência de um paradoxo (aparente): crianças que não vivem em família, mas falam continuamente de família, tendo como pontos de ancoragem o referencial teórico de Lefebvre e Vigotski. Após realizar, durante um ano, visitas semanais a uma instituição de atendimento à infância, localizada em um município da região de Campinas, há evidências de que as crianças não estão falando propriamente de família; na realidade, elas estão reclamando da ausência de relações sociais de reconhecimento, já que o Estado/a sociedade ignoram os seus direitos, impondo-lhes como destino a situação em que foram geradas: a pobreza, a realização de tarefas socialmente desvalorizadas e a participação no sistema produtivo como exército de reserva / Abstract: This work has the objective of elucidating the essence of an apparent paradox: children who do not live in family, but talk continuously about family. The work has its anchor points on the theoretical referential of Lefebvre and Vigotski. After carrying out, during one year, weekly visits to an institution of attendance to infancy, located in the Campinas region, there are evidences that the children are not talking exactly about family; in reality, they are complaining about the absence of social relations of recognition, since the State and the society ignore their rights, imposing to them as their destiny the same situation in which they were born: poverty, the accomplishment of tasks socially devaluated and participation in the productive system as reserve army / Doutorado / Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte / Doutor em Educação